It depends upon one's definition of God. Religion is also a term that is open to ambiguity. We should not conflate the terms. I am a Christian and yet if I defined God the way most atheists do, I would be an atheist also, as would God Himself. I am a Christian but I do not count myself a follower of any religion, nor does God...

(11-12-2013 01:41 PM)WillHopp Wrote: Thanks for the link. It's only a matter of time.

Indeed if the current trend continues in the next 50 years it will be the theists in the minority. Which is of course why they are over reaching now they see the end of the line coming and are panicking.

(31-07-2014 04:37 PM)Luminon Wrote: America is full of guns, but they're useless, because nobody has the courage to shoot an IRS agent in self-defense

It depends upon one's definition of God. Religion is also a term that is open to ambiguity. We should not conflate the terms. I am a Christian and yet if I defined God the way most atheists do, I would be an atheist also, as would God Himself. I am a Christian but I do not count myself a follower of any religion, nor does God...

You got the idea from a holy book, that by itself is enough to scoff at regardless if you attend a church or claim a particular sect. I am sure other people of other religious beliefs don't go to holy buildings or claim a particular sect. Watering down beliefs to sound inclusive does not make any god real.

Jefferson was a deist but even his "generic" version I would question. Where is the evidence for any non-material invisible sky hero?

(11-12-2013 01:41 PM)WillHopp Wrote: Thanks for the link. It's only a matter of time.

Indeed if the current trend continues in the next 50 years it will be the theists in the minority. Which is of course why they are over reaching now they see the end of the line coming and are panicking.

And all I keep hearing from them is, "This was predicted! I'll be the last one standing in this war! End times!"

It's hardly a surprise American atheists are as welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue when you look at America's fascistic Foundling* Fathers, i.e. the religious bacillus that oozed ashore in 1620, and the exorbitant, baneful influence these sanctimonious, autocratic maggots have had on America's communal mind ever since. The psalm singing Nazis who really founded America.

*unwelcome everywhere they went in Europe because of their arrogant and totally intolerant doctrine.

It's hardly a surprise American atheists are as welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue when you look at America's fascistic Foundling* Fathers, i.e. the religious bacillus that oozed ashore in 1620, and the exorbitant, baneful influence these sanctimonious, autocratic maggots have had on America's communal mind ever since. The psalm singing Nazis who really founded America.

*unwelcome everywhere they went in Europe because of their arrogant and totally intolerant doctrine.